Young Investigator Awards
Class of 2024


2024 Jo and Tom Knight – PCF Young Investigator Award

NFI-Family Transcription Factors Support AR-activity During Prostate Cancer Progression

Larysa Poluben, PhD
Harvard: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)

Mentor: Steven Balk, MD, PhD

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2024 Larry Leeds, Penny & Larry Goichman, and Ben Shenkman – PCF Young Investigator Award

Targeting Gene Fusion Derived pMHC Neoantigens in Prostate Cancer

Daniel Rosen, MD, PhD
Harvard: Massachusetts General Hospital

Mentors: Nir Hacohen, PhD; Anthony D’Amico, MD, PhD

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2024 Center for Prostate Disease Research – PCF Young Investigator Award

Defining the Functional and Spatial Immune Repertoire Roles of the Prostate Tumor Microenvironment

Cara Schafer, PhD
Center for Prostate Disease Research

Mentors: Leigh Ellis, PhD; Deborah Citrin, MD

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2024 Jenny Johnson Family Foundation – PCF Young Investigator Award

Metabolic Targeting of Poor Prognostic Prostate Cancer

Tahlia Scheinberg, MBBS
Chris O’Brien Lifehouse

Mentors: Lisa Horvath, MBBS, PhD; Lisa Butler, PhD; David Labbé, PhD

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2024 Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation – PCF Young Investigator Award

Establishing an Indication for Pyruvate Kinase Activator Therapy in Prostate Cancer

Daniel Schmidt, MD, PhD
Harvard: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Mentors: Matthew Vander Heiden, MD, PhD; Steven Balk, MD, PhD

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